Legal Opinion
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Inc. v. Energy Facilities Siting Board
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 18, 2006PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
The Energy Facilities Siting Board (board) *46conditionally approved a petition filed jointly by Cape Wind Associates, LLC (Cape Wind), and Commonwealth Electric Company, doing business as NSTAR Electric (NSTAR) (together, applicants), to build and operate two 115 kilovolt underground and undersea electric transmission Unes approximately eighteen miles in length. The transmission Unes would connect an offshore wind-powered energy generating facihty (wind farm) proposed for construction by Cape Wind in Federal waters off Nantucket Sound with the existing New England regional electric power grid.…
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